Nook Technology

Build a working steel mill for Nookworks – then automate everything around it.

Nook Technology is the industrial add-on to Nookworks.
Bake coke, smelt pig iron in a brick blast furnace and blow it into steel. Then run your base on it: Conveyor Belts with
Loading Arms, Motors and shafts, power lines and billion-FE batteries, a Quarry that clears the chunks you pick on a
map, a storage terminal – and a zipline home. Drawn in Nookworks’ own black frames, dark steel and brass.

NeoForge 26.3 · needs Nookworks 1.3.0+ · JEI & Jade optional · 8 languages · free for modpacks ·
Player guide

Beta. Everything is finished to play; numbers may still be tuned. Back up your world before updating.

New in 0.2

• Short-Range Magnet Chest – gathers only what falls right beside it: a Desulfurizer’s sulfur, a machine’s output.
• Copper Tanks stack into one tank, up to sixteen high, while the add-on is installed.
• Shafts turn Drive Wheels, and a running belt turns the shafts at its side.
• Utility Poles stand three blocks high and feed the machines beside their foot.
• Quarry Start button – nothing digs until you press it.
• Power lines without steel – the Wire Drawer is built on Nookworks’ Machine Chassis.
• Thirteen new advancements, and the first challenges: a chunk quarried to bedrock, a generator geared to x16,
  10,000 FE/t through one Power Meter.
• Polished throughout: click a belt, arm or shaft with an empty hand to see what it is doing; twelve new sounds;
  the Sifter’s tray, the Block Breaker’s cutter and the Enchanter’s pages move while they work.
• Coke Ovens take blocks of coal; Loading Arms work at belt corners; Shift+drag takes items out of the Storage Terminal.
  Full changelog

The steelworks

A Coke Oven and an Industrial Blast Furnace, built of Nether Bricks round a door, turn coal and iron into pig
iron; a Converter blows it into steel. Or melt Nookworks’ scrap in an Electric Arc Furnace. The coal tar goes to
a Tar Still under Nookworks’ distillation columns, for pitch, graphite and creosote. A Sinter Machine makes
the better charge; a Desulfurizer on a Generator catches sulfur from its coal smoke. Steel builds the add-on’s
machines – and H-Beams and Catwalks to build a works with.

The steelworks in the guide →

Conveyor Belts and Loading Arms

One Motor runs a whole belt – round corners, up slopes, at up to sixteen times the speed with a speed gear, either way.
Set a machine on the belt, give it a Loading Arm, and it picks out what it can use and drops what it makes back on.
Belts stand on legs, wall brackets or ceiling hangers, whatever is round them.

Belts in the guide →

Shafts, gears and a Hobson’s Joint

Carry a Motor’s turn where you need it: Shafts, a Bevel Gearbox, a Clutch, a Reversing Gear – and a
Hobson’s Joint, six bent rods sliding through its hubs. Throw a lever by hand or by redstone to stop a line or send
it back.

Shafts in the guide →

Power

Utility Poles strung with wire carry 2,000 FE/t a pole, 24 blocks a span. A Battery holds a billion FE, a
Large Battery two – and keeps its charge when you pick it up. A Power Meter shows what flows. Forge Energy
throughout, so other mods’ cables connect.

Power in the guide →

Moving items: the Long Hopper

A hopper and a pipe in one: intakes take what machines drop, outlets put it into chests and machines down the line,
by priority, faster with a speed gear. Sorting stays with Nookworks’ sorters.

The Long Hopper in the guide →

Machines

On Nookworks’ lower cabinets, each with its working part on the lid: Electric Sifter, Wire Drawer, Auto
Crafter (JEI’s + sets the pattern), Auto Brewer (whole potion chains), Enchanter (on Liquid Experience),
Enchantment Extractor, Fishing Machine, Animal Feeder, Pumpkin Carver, Block Breaker and Block
Placer.

Machines in the guide →

The Quarry and the Chunk Loader

Pick chunks on a map, press Start, and the Quarry clears them to bedrock on power alone – enchanted books choose
Silk Touch or Fortune, speed or thrift. The Chunk Loader keeps the chunks you pick running.

The Quarry in the guide →

Storage Terminal and Monitor

Storage Cable joins up to 128 chests, barrels, shulker boxes and Nookworks’ crates to one Storage Terminal:
search them all, pull items out, craft from them. Your items stay in your chests.

Monitor Screens set side by side join into one screen, up to 16 by 9; a Monitor Controller shows the photos
you take with Nookworks’ Camera as a slideshow, or lines of text with a sign – for a shop or a station.

Storage in the guide → · The Monitor in the guide →

Ziplines

Two anchors up to 64 blocks apart, a cable of drawn iron wire and a handle: hook on and ride down at up to 16 blocks a
second – from a lookout on the hill straight down to the works.

Ziplines in the guide →

Nookworks’ machines, faster

Nookworks’ Sorter Gears become speed gears: up to x16 in its Crusher, Compressor, Recycler, Motors and more, for
more power each. Generators get a gear too, heat machines a power setting, the Electrolytic Cell electrodes – and
Copper Tanks stack into one. Without the add-on, Nookworks stays exactly as it was.

Upgrades in the guide →

Where to start

1. Build a Coke Oven (iron, glass, Nether Bricks and a furnace – no steel) and bake coal into coke.
2. Build the Industrial Blast Furnace and charge it with iron, coke and Limestone Lumps (from crushed calcite or
   dripstone).
3. Blow the pig iron into steel in a Converter, and make a Reinforced Machine Chassis.
4. Build the add-on’s machines on it. Belts, Long Hoppers and the Wire Drawer, whose wire strings Utility Poles
   and ziplines, need no steel at all – make them any time.

The guide has it step by step: From iron ore to steel

Good to know

• No world generation: no ores, plants or structures – safe for a world you already have.
• Every part can be switched off for a pack (config/nooktech-startup.toml).
• Other mods’ steel, coke and iron dust work by common tags; power is Forge Energy.
• JEI shows every recipe, structure and upgrade; Jade what each machine is doing. Claims are respected.

FAQ

Modpacks? Yes – MIT licensed, no need to ask.

What do I need? Minecraft 26.3, NeoForge 26.3.0.76+, Java 25, Nookworks 1.3.0+. On both client and server.

Does it change Nookworks? Only while installed (gear slots, stacked tanks, a few recipes).

Fabric or older versions? Not planned.

Tell us what you think

Over 500 automated in-game tests pass, and it is played in singleplayer; it has not been played on a dedicated server
yet. Tell us what you built, where you got stuck and what you would want next – every comment is read.

How this mod was made

Nook Technology is made with AI (Claude, by Anthropic) under the author’s direction: the author decides what goes in,
plays it and judges it; the AI writes the code, this page and the textures, drawn by scripts kept with the source.
Every picture here is a real in-game capture. The banner and the power line are taken with Complementary Reimagined
shaders, as their captions say; the rest without.

License

MIT. All textures are the mod’s own; no vanilla images are included.

日本語に対応しています。くわしい使い方はガイドをどうぞ。Nookworks 1.3.0 以降が必要です。

支持简体中文。详细玩法请看玩家指南。需要 Nookworks 1.3.0 或更高版本。

支援繁體中文。詳細玩法請看玩家指南。需要 Nookworks 1.3.0 或更新版本。

한국어를 지원합니다. 자세한 사용법은 플레이어 가이드를 참고하세요. Nookworks 1.3.0 이상이 필요합니다.

Disponible en español: guía. · На русском: руководство. · Em português: guia.